Obama Kills Civilians in Afghanistan … or something like that
If you know someone who isn’t a blog reader, have I got a scoop for you. The media, playing zealous advocate for the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama (and yes, I used his middle name. Get used to it. Daring to do so makes all the right people irrationally mad), has totally ignored his lack of foreign policy experience. About the only thing anyone knows is that Obama favors invading Pakistan — apparently he doesn’t realize Pakistan is a nuclear power.
One of the areas that Obama is more and more showing his cluelessness on is Afghanistan. In August of last year, Obama said
We went into Iraq, a war that we should have never authorized and should not have been waged.. It has fanned the flames of anti-American sentiment. It has, more importantly, allowed us to neglect the situation in Afghanistan.
Part of that neglect, according to Obama, is his belief that in Afghanistan
We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.
“Air-raiding villages and killing civilians” is what Obama apparently believes we are doing in Afghanistan.
The Afghan operation is a NATO operation. It’s not just the Americans, it’s British royalty engaged in killing the Taliban. This is an important point because Obama is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs. And the subcommittee he chairs has jurisdiction for oversight of NATO.
Of course, you will probably not be surprised to learn that Obama has called his subcommittee to order exactly zero times. That’s right — Barack Obama chairs the committee that could investigate his allegation that NATO is killing civilians in Afghanistan, but he has chosen to call no meetings. Or, as CNN’s Lou Dobbs put it earlier this month, “The reality is this man for 13 months has had a responsibility to hold oversight hearings on Afghanistan and the conduct of that war and has not done so.“
It will probably also not surprise you to learn that Obama has had several opportunities to go inspect Afghanistan for himself and has, each time, decided not to go.
If you are left with the conclusion that Obama’s problem is not foreign policy inexperience, but a willfulness to ignore military success, I couldn’t blame you. But whether it is inexperience or a willfulness to cast aspersions on the military for political game, we must wonder if this man is really fit to be our Commander-in-Chief.
God Bless Texas
A week from tomorrow, Texas will either prolong the bloody battle for the Democratic nomination or give the nomination to a self-admitted former cokehead. Either way, we should thank Texas.
Let’s presume, if we will, that Texas goes for Barack Hussein Obama, a name that is not quite poll tested and mother approved. That presumption is not a safe one because even now the forces of Clinton are going into hispanic communities and churches to remind them that hispanics would be minority number one in a Clinton administration and minority number three in an Obama administration, behind blacks and everybody else. With thirty percent of the voting strength in the Texas Democratic Primary, Hispanics could help Hillary pull it off.
In any event, I presume Obama will win. And we should delight in his victory. Hillary has been too timid to throw a punch. We will not be.
We will remind people that Obama admitted using cocaine. While the left loves to accuse George Bush of doing the same, one of these two men wrote a book and admitted he did so. And that man’s name is not Bush.
We will point out that when Obama was in the Illinois Senate he voted to allow porn shops to open within 1,000 feet of churches and elementary schools.
Likewise, Obama voted against trying high school students as adults if they committed gun crimes on school grounds — I’m sure the folks in Colorado will love that vote.
Obama says he only wants gun owners to be able to use their guns for sport and he has a record to prove it. Obama supported allowing criminals to sue their victims if their victims shot them.
Crucially, for those pro-life voters who right now seem to be fawning over Obama, we’ll remind them that he is to the left of Hillary on abortion — going so far as to oppose the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
For years the Democrats have tried to get away from the anti-gun, big government, high tax, abortion on demand liberal label. They’ve gone so far as to rebrand themselves progressive. Obama champions the failed schemes of the last one hundred years, repeatedly rejected by the voters, to fix what he claims are the failed policies of the last eight years. The Democrats, God bless ‘em, are about to hand us the prototypical liberal boogeyman as their nominee.
By the time it’s all over, the only defense Obama is going to have is to resort to the standard liberal playbook and scream racism when anyone dares point out his voting record. And the public we have not heard from year, the public that swings elections but generally does not engage in primaries, are going to come running to John McCain begging him to save the nation from the liberal anti-gun former cokehead whose feminist wife hates America.
America has rejected liberalism. Obama thinks he can repackage it in new rhetoric and move it to the left of Hillary. He cannot. I relish the fight against the man who has no problem with porn shops across the street from elementary schools and terrorist leaders in the White House. That’ll go over real well.
The only thing better than an Obama candidacy is a Hillary one after a bloody primary fight. As a result, God bless Texas.
Paging all Wii Owners
I no longer hate you. I have now purchased one.
By the way, I write this as it may be of interest to those of you who have been looking for one and can’t find one.
I signed up for a tracking account at iTrakr. The site text messages you when shipment of Wii’s arrive at a Wal-Mart, Gamestop, Circuit City, Best Buy, Target, or other electronics store.
I signed up in December and have only gotten a text message twice and both times was not in a position to go get a Wii. Within hours, usually, I would receive a second message that the Wii’s were sold out.
Yesterday at 8:11 a.m. I received a text message that the Wal-Mart on Gray Highway had Wii’s in stock. I hopped in the car immediately and drove the ten minutes over there and there were no Wii’s to be found.
I went to the back of the store and there were no Wii’s. So I went up to the lady at the register and said, “Ma’am, this may be your weird question of the day, but I signed up for a service that tells me when y’all get Wii’s in and it just text messaged me 10 minutes ago and said y’all had some in.”
She said, “We don’t even get our truck in till 11 o’clock. Let me call back there and see if they know anything.”
She picked up the phone, chatted for a minute, and said, “What’s this service you got?”
I told her and she said, “The truck got in about 15 minutes ago and they hadn’t even taken the Wii’s out yet to put ‘em in inventory. There’s a whole flat of ‘em.”
Very, very impressive.
And I have me a Wii.
The moral of the story is that if you are one of the million or so people in the United States who reportedly want a Wii and cannot find one, use iTrakr. Now I must buy Guitar Hero.
The Hope-A-Dope Strategy Only Gets You So Far
I think we should all start spelling abomination O-B-A-M-A-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Questions to ask [UPDATED]
This is a map of the areas to be annexed by Macon. The dark green is the present city and the light green is the area to be annexed.
Just from the map alone, the annexation plan really makes sense. And by the way, I think in the grand scheme of things, annexation makes total sense for the city and for those to be annexed. They should still, however, have the right to vote on the matter.
To the right is just one example why. That plot of land covers my preacher’s home. As you can see, some areas of the city limits go through people’s back yards. There is no creek or road or any other landmark to determine where the city limits are, just someone’s back yard. It was done a long time ago to gerrymander people in and maintain some sort of nonsensical racial balance that could have at least been done using census tracts instead of backyards. The perverse result is that in some neighborhoods, city garbage trucks run up one side of the street to a handful of houses and county garbage trucks take care of the rest of neighborhood.
But, because there is no public hearing on this matter, I think there are a couple of questions we should ask. To be sure, there was a work session on the matter with Council and Mayor, but it was not advertised to the public as such and I had the flu and couldn’t attend to ask these questions.
So, here are three more sections of the map. Read more
I which I propose the annexation of Quebec
Last night at Macon’s City Council, the majority of Council opted to not have any period of public hearing on the issue of annexation. In fact, we bypassed the committee system altogether and went straight to a vote.
The argument was that the local delegation would call for a vote.
So I offered up an amendment specifying that we absolutely wanted a vote of those residents affected by annexation. To ensure I had enough votes I had to insert the language “both inside and outside the city limits of Macon.” Amazingly, some of these same Council members who did not want a public hearing because there would be a vote of the people, then voted against the amendment calling for a public vote. The argument was that we can’t bind the General Assembly. The effect was to avoid all opportunities to show we embrace the public’s role to decide for themselves if they want annexation. My amendment won out. Had it not, I would not have voted for annexation.
The amendment calls for a more expansive vote that what state law requires and I actually encourage the local delegation to embrace what we asked for to the maximum extent. The Mayor and some members of Council want a vote for voters inside and outside the city limits. Now, to be sure, they want it because they know that voters inside the city limits can overwhelm those outside the city limits and annexation can pass even if a majority of voters outside the city limits vote no.
I would encourage the local delegation to give the Mayor and these members of Council exactly what they want — but make sure a majority of residents inside the city limits must vote in favor of annexation and a majority of residents outside the city limits must vote in favor of annexation. If we’re going to hide behind disingenuousness, let’s go all the way. Read more
My child the televangelist
I’ve decided my child has a budding career as a televangelist.
Last Thursday, after five days in bed, Evelyn marched upstairs to me, threw a pair of jeans at me, and said, “Get up, put your pants on Daddy. You all better now. Come down stairs now.” Heavy emphasis on “get up” and “now.”
I need to teach her how to say the word “Healed” with lots of emotion and force.
To the left of Hillary
Hillary and Barack are scrambling to get to the left of John Edwards on a host of issues, but there is one issue on which Barack Obama has been consistently to the left of Hillary Clinton — the birth of children.
In partial birth abortion, a baby is born while the doctors are careful to leave the child partially in the birth canal. Then an incision is made in the back of the baby’s head and its brains are vacuumed out. The child, being old enough, is aware and feeling.
Throughout his political career, Barack Obama has been a supporter of the procedure.
In 2004, as a candidate Barack Obama sent out a fundraising appeal against it.
U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the “alarming news” that “right-wing politicians” had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls. Michelle called partial-birth abortion “a legitimate medical procedure,” and wouldn’t supporters please pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her husband, who would fight against “cynical ploy[s]” to stop it?
In 2003, while in the Illinois legislature, Barack Obama chaired the Illinois Senate committee that dealt with the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (”BAIPA”), a measure beyond the PBA that any sane person should support. The act mandating live saving medical treatment for infants born alive, as some children are born even though an abortion has been attempted. Obama refused to allow the committee to consider the legislation. He refused a hearing and shelved the legislation.
That’s to the left of Hillary Clinton’s position and NARAL’s position, which was neutral on consideration of the BAIPA.*
And some of you people would rather Obama than John McCain. Pitiful.
*Updated: As SIConservative notes here, I made the mistake of equating the PBA and BAIPA. Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc. supported the BAIPA, though Obama opposed it. Both Clinton and Obama opposed the PBA. I have fixed the post to resolve the confusion and correct the error.
Put another way, Hillary and Obama agree that until a baby is fully from the womb, it can be slaughtered. But, Hillary believes that once the baby is all the way out, you cannot slaughter it. Obama disagrees and supports killing fully born children.
The Online Left vs. Obama: They’ve Been In Hillary’s Pocket All Along.
By and large, the online left hates Obama. It’s one of the underreported ironies of this political season. Obama has more in common with the netroots than Hillary. He’s to the left of her on the war, on corporate issues, on social welfare issues – even on life issues Obama appears to the left of Hillary. But the online left does not like him.
There are a few reasons for this. For one, Obama is no Ned Lamont. He’s a dazzling, rising star of the left, but unlike Lamont, Obama is not a product of the online left. He has, in fact, done it on his own. Obama has had a brilliant online operation. His online fundraising was Dean’esque without Joe Trippi’s involvement. His website and Web 2.0 strategy has been dazzling without Jerome Armstrong’s involvement. His ability to get people fired up and directed in a particular direction has been stellar without Kos’s involvement. In fact, Obama’s relations with bloggers have been frosty and he hasn’t spent much time stroking their egos.
Obama is, by and large, a testament that the online movement remains ancillary to the cause.
There is another reason too, and one we should pay attention to.
Nuts.
